. >> shepard: you bet. and one constant i hear from critics, well, if they qualify and then change the standards and make it a little easier for women. is that a concern of yours? >> not at all. they can't change the standards. they'll have to come back to congress as they ask to keep some of the combat jobs close today women and we'll be keeping an eye on it. it needs to be performance-based. look, they've always been critics and naysayers anytime the milithis. there were folks who said that african-americans did not have the mental capacity to operate complex machinery and trying to keep them from flying aircraft during world war ii and look what the tuskegee airmen were able to do. there were folks who said that the japanese americans were too small in stature to be fighters and look what the regimental combat team did in world war ii. and those who said opening up gays to the military, destroying morale. trust in their professionalism. i trust them. >> do you think when today's kids are old enough to st